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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H643
People
Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Israel Thorndike (1755 - 1832)
Title
Col. Israel Thorndike (1755-1832)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1815-1820
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304991

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
83 x 65.5 cm (32 11/16 x 25 13/16 in.)
framed: 102.2 x 86.4 x 8.3 cm (40 1/4 x 34 x 3 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sitter; to his eldest son Israel Augustus Thorndike (1785-1867); to his heirs (1879); Thorndike family, Baltimore; purchased by Dr. Augustus Thorndike (1896-1986), Boston.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of several descendants of Israel Thorndike, donor of the Ebeling Collection, in memory of Augustus Thorndike A.B. 1884 and in honor of Augustus Thorndike, Class of 1919, 1818
Object Number
H643
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. II, p. 749-50, no. 834; vol IV, ill. p. 518
  • Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 406, cat. 2146
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 457-58, cat. 423, ill.

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